India triumphs in maiden Mars mission
NEW DELHI (Reuters) India s first mission to Mars entered orbit on Wednesday, making it the first Asian nation to reach the Red Planet, all for less than the budget of the Hollywood space blockbuster Gravity . space agency NASA spent on its newly arrived MAVEpatagonia black hole pack reviewN Mars mission.
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History has been created today, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, bursting into applause along with hundreds of scientists at the Bangalore command centre of the state run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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India joins the United States, Russia and Europe in successfully sending probes to orbit or land on Mars.
In 2011 a Chinese spacecraft destined for Mars failed to leave Earth s orbit after a botched Russian launch.
ISRO successfully ignited the main engine and eight small thruspatagonia coupon code free shippingters, which fired for 24 minutes, trimming the speed of the craft so it could be captured by Mars s gravity and slide into orbit. EDT on Tuesday) when the spacecraft, nicknamed MOM, emerged from behind the planet and transmitted a signal.
After completing the 666 million km (414 million mile) journey in more than 10 months, the spacecraft, also kpatagonia backcountry guide pants blacknown as Mangalyaan Hindi for Mars craft patagonia better sweater vest women0 will now study the Red Planet s surface and scan its atmosphere for chemical methane.
ISRO scientists will operate five scientific instruments on the spacecraft to gather data, said ISRO s scientific secretary, V. Koteswara Rao.
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Modi has said he wants to expand India s five decade old space programme. The technological triumph is fortuitously timed for him he will be able to flaunt it on a trip to the United States starting on Friday.
Modi is also India s minister of space, and noted with satisfaction that the project had cost less than Gravity , whose budpatagonia luxury hotelsget the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) estimates at $100 million.
Mangalyaan and NASA s MAVEN join two other NASA orbiters, Europe s Mars Express orbiter and two NASA rovers currently exploring Mars.
MAVEN, which arrived on Sunday, is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. It is designed to study the planet s thin atmosphere in attempt to learn what happened to Mars s water.
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Both the United States and Russia lost their first Mars probes. Europe s first Mars mission, the multinational Mars Express, did enter orbit in December 2003, although a companion British built lander was destroyed during its descent to the surface.
NASA duly tipped its hat. We congratulate the Indian Space Research Organisation for its successful arrival at Mars with the Mars Orbiter Mission, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement.
It was an impressive engineering feat, and we welcome India to the patagonia better sweater vest women1family of nations studying another facet of the Red Planet.
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India s space programme was launched in the early 1960s and it developed its own rocket technology after Western powers imposed sanctions for a nuclear weapons test in 1974.
Still, it remains a small player in a global space industry that grew to $314 billion in revenues and government budgets ipatagonia better sweater vest women3n 2013, according to the Colorado based Space Foundation.
Experts say Mars success can help change that.
ISRO will now hopefully attract a lot of business, said Mayank N. Vahia, a scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
With 30 Indian and 40 foreign satellite launches so far, its nearest cheap competition would be China, which is armed with bigger space launchers. ISRO signed an agreement with China National Space Administration on Friday to cooperate in research and development of various satelpatagonia guide pants youthlites.
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